Historical Study

Winner of the 2005 Kiriyama Prize for Non-fictionSuketu Mehta left Bombay at the age of 14. Twenty-one years later he returned to rediscover the city. The result is this stunning, brilliantly illuminating portrait of the megalopolis and its people—a book, seven years in the making, that is as vast... More

Winner of the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year ‘City of Djinns is a delight. William Dalrymple is in command of his subject, seizes the reader and uses his skill to tempt and tantalize… The book is Dalrymple’s journey into the soul of Delhiâ€... More

The angry ranting of an obscure small-party politician the first volume of Mein Kampf was virtually ignored when it was originally published in 1925. Likewise the second volume which appeared in 1926. The book details Hitler's childhood the 'betrayal' of Germany in World War I the desire for revenge... More

An informative study filled with behind-the-scenes stories follows the rise of McDonald's and its remarkably successful marketing strategies, in a completely revised edition with a new epilogue. Original.... More

This comprehensive text is designed for postgraduate students of Management, Commerce, Economics and Sociology. In addition, the book also be useful to under-graduate students of Management and Commerce. The book presents the concepts of research methodology, types of research, statistical tools for... More

Rabindranath Tagore's Ghare Baire was first serialised in 1914 and published as a novel in 1916. The events in the novel deal with the period 1905-7, a period of tremendous political unrest in Bengal. The public upheaval takes place alongside another revolution – that of women's emancipation and a... More

This book begins with an introduction to the principal ideas behind compilation, and then illustrates these ideas by constructing a simple one-pass compiler. The remainder of the book amplifies the ideas presented in the first two chapters and discusses more advanced topics such as syntax analysis, ... More

Reissue of the sequel to the massive worldwide bestseller Princess Readers of Princess Sultana’s extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women’s lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Dau... More

A thoughtful and beautifully crafted epilogue to the history of slavery, A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers, ordinary men and women, both black and... More

One of the makers of modern India tells the story of the partition of India as never before, with intimate knowledge and feeling. India Wins Freedom has at last won its own freedom. The full text of this autobiographical narrative was confined, under seal, in the National Library, Calcutta, and in t... More

Modern science is widely considered a purely West European creation. Academic accounts of its relationship to other societies and cultures have thus centred either on highlighting the epistemological, sociological, and economic uniqueness of the West, or else on focusing on the mechanisms of its wor... More

The present volume of Subaltern Studies presents the first comprehensive historical introduction to Subaltern Studies and the worldwide debates it has generated among scholars of history, politics and sociology. The volume provides a reliable point of departure for new readers of Subaltern Studies a... More